The subject of industrial policy has recently experienced a renewed interest in both political and economics spheres. Despite pressures for liberalisation from organisations such as the World Trade Organisation, state aids are still widely used throughout the world, showing that some form of...

Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policy to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. For example, the Canada - Renewable energy dispute is over Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in...

Large-scale business subsidies tied to national industrial development promotion programmes are notoriously difficult to study and are often inseparable from the political economy of large government programmes. We use the Tunisian national firm registry panel database, data on treated firms,...